Thursday, November 21, 2024
NEW DELHI — Dyslipidemia, or high cholesterol, comes with no symptoms, but is a silent killer and a major risk factor for heart disease in India, said health experts on Sunday. The first-ever Indian guidelines for dyslipidemia management released b...
28 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Want to prolong your life? Regular sunlight exposure ranging from five to 30 minutes daily when ultraviolet (UV) rays are low can boost longevity and enhance health, an expert said on Sunday. Taking to a post on the social media platfor...
28 Jul 2024
TOKYO — The average life expectancy of Japanese people rose in 2023 for the first time in three years, due to a decline in deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, government data showed. The average life expectancy of women in Japan came to 87.14 years,...
27 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Scientists at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) on Thursday announced the development of a cutting-edge computational model that ...
25 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — While pesticides are essential for ensuring high crop yields and food security, they also increase the risk of cancer akin to smoking, finds a study. The research published in the journal Frontiers in Cancer Control and Society found th...
25 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Self-breast examination just once a month can help women detect the deadly cancer early, and boost treatment outcomes, said health experts on Thursday, amid rising breast cancer cases in the country. Breast cancer is the most common typ...
25 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — A newly discovered antibiotic that disrupts two distinct biological targets will make it 100 million times harder for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to a study. The study from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), in ...
24 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Daily use of statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attacks, and strokes in people with HIV by 35 per cent, according to a study. People living with HIV can have a 50-100 ...
24 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Early recognition of sarcoma (rare cancer) symptoms can significantly improve treatment outcomes, increasing patients’ survival rates and quality of life, said experts on Tuesday. July is recognised as sarcoma awareness month, ded...
23 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — US researchers have found during a study how cancer cells manage to evade despite treatment. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study delves into the cellular processes that allow cancer cells to proli...
21 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Experts have said that vector control, hygiene and awareness are the key measures against the Chandipura virus and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) cases in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In Gujarat, symptoms of Chandipura viru...
21 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — High stress among women in pregnancy may get passed on to the foetus and raise the risk of depression and obesity among children later, finds a study. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Dartmouth College conducted a s...
20 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — There’s an urgent need to boost preventive health to prevent a large burden of diseases, even as a recent study showed an increase in lifespan by 2050, said experts on Saturday. According to the latest findings from th...
20 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Low Vitamin D levels, also known as the sunshine vitamin, are vital for bone health and remain a pressing concern among women, who are more prone to osteoporosis, arthritis, or other bone-related issues, said experts on Saturday. Vitami...
20 Jul 2024
CANBERRA — Australian researchers have made a discovery they say could improve the effectiveness of drugs used to mitigate the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. In a study published on Wednesday, a team led by national science agency the Common...
17 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — In a first, Swiss researchers developed a hydrogel implant that will help in contraception and in preventing or halting the spread of endometriosis. Approximately 10 per cent of women suffer from endometriosis, a condition whose exact c...
17 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Walking after meals is safe and may be key to managing diabetes, hypertension, and sleep issues, said an expert. Taking to social media X, Dr Sudhir Kumar, from Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, said walking, whether in the morn...
15 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — US researchers have identified a protein responsible for causing fatigue in people with long Covid, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. While infections and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s are known to cause inflammation...
14 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — A team of researchers led by an Indian-American scientist Dr Sameer Sheth has identified a specific neural activity pattern for patients who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and have undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS)...
13 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Researchers have found that inflammation in an immune cell may be responsible for very rare genetic conditions known as lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs). The LSDs affect one in 7,700 live births and while symptoms present themselves in...
13 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — A team of researchers has discovered blood markers that may predict whether glaucoma patients are at a higher risk of continuing to lose eyesight after normal therapy. Glaucoma (known as kala motia in India), affects nearly 11.2 million...
13 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) like cycling, push-ups, burpees, squats, and lunges may not just delay cognitive decline in the elderly but also boost brain function that can last for years, according to a study on Wednesday. ...
10 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — Women who survive cardiac arrest are more likely to experience greater rates of anxiety and depression than men, according to a study on Tuesday. The research group from Amsterdam University Medical Centre in the Netherlands analysed ...
09 Jul 2024
NEW DELHI — A team of US scientists on Monday announced the development of a discovery platform to probe the function of genes involved in metabolism. The scientists used the new platform, called ‘GeneMAP’ (Gene-Metabolite Associa...
08 Jul 2024
SEOUL —The South Korean government is expected to announce measures to deal with trainee doctors who refuse to return to hospitals in protest of medical reform as early as this week, officials said on Sunday. The government is set to announce its m...
07 Jul 2024
